In front of a half-abandoned courtyard house across the two streets of Changxuan Garden, just after dark, there were already two green-skinned gangsters wearing thick jackets, cotton hats, and thick cotton boots with leggings under their feet.

There are many miserable people in Sijiu City, and they all play small drums to collect pawn tickets, sew poor pulp laundry clothes, or go to restaurants and restaurants to collect folding baskets and sell them, and they can't earn a few big children after a hard day. If you really don't want to squeeze through the temple and sleep on the side of the street with the flower children on the street, these miserable people who don't have a few big sons in their waists can only find a half-deserted ownerless house in Sijiu City to live in.

But even those half-deserted houses in the city of 49 have long been held by the green-skinned gangsters who eat all directions on the street. Looking at the doors and windows of those half-deserted houses, there are no doors and windows, and most of the collapsed earthen kang can't even see Zhang Po Reed mat, saying that there are only some corners to barely block the wind, and if you want to go in and ask for a night of peace, you have to put five big sons in the hands of the green-skinned gangsters who hold the door!

Seeing the bitter people who were struggling to survive in Sijiu City hurriedly running to the half-abandoned courtyard house guarded by themselves, the green-skinned thugs who guarded the door suddenly laughed, and they didn't forget to joke to the bitter people who ran to the courtyard: "But hurry up....... Last night, the wind was strong, and the north house blew away half of the tiles, and there was one less piece of land to hide from the wind! ”

"But if you cover your drummer, and want to blow away a pawn ticket, maybe you can ask someone to pick it up and make a fortune......."

"Huh...... Is this a basket or a swill? Half a street away and you can smell a bad smell? ”

The mouth was full of shouting and joking, but the two green-skinned gangsters were not idle in their hands to take over the five eldest sons who were hot in their hands. Seeing that the half-ruined courtyard was already crowded with those miserable people. Unable to find a place that can be covered by tiles and a wall to block the wind, the two green-skinned gangsters who guarded the door lazily took the eldest son they received into their arms, and just wanted to raise their legs and run to the secret door not far away, but in front of them, a thin and tall man wearing a cotton hat covering his face, wearing a thick cloth robe, and carrying an old wooden box appeared in front of him, and the five eldest sons in his hands also stretched out to the two of them.

Involuntarily took half a step back. A slap involuntarily grabbed the five eldest sons, and one of the green-skinned thugs in the door stood up and shouted at the thin man, "Ho....... This outfit ...... Is it rare? What's the matter, I said to the master, which line are you looking for a scarf, a shawl, a color, and a hanging? ”

With his head drooping, the thin man with an old wooden box on his back seemed to have no strength to speak after a hard day's work, and he replied in a hoarse voice: "Second master, I can't make a living all the way, but I just rely on a little family handicraft to chew and wrap." Please also make it convenient for the two of you to help find a place to rest. There's a shelter that can block the wind! ”

sneered, stretched out his hand and grabbed the green-skinned thugs who had pinched the five eldest sons towards the half-abandoned courtyard, and shouted in a loud voice: "Five eldest sons in one night, where can you spend a night, it is all based on your creation, and you still want to ask the master to wait for you to find the land boundary?" Feelings: Your five eldest sons are inlaid with gold and jade, can't you? ”

As if he was a little hesitant, the thin man reached out and took out seven or eight eldest sons from his arms, held them in both hands and handed them to the two green-skinned gangsters, and said in a low voice: "Second master." All my belongings are here, and all of them are filial to the two masters! It's not that I don't understand the rules set by your two masters. It's really my body that is not good for bones, I'm afraid I won't be able to withstand the wind blowing all night......."

Before he finished speaking, the thin man coughed violently as if he had choked on the cold wind, and then he dropped the seven or eight eldest sons he was holding in his hand to the ground.

The splitter snatched the few big men who were barely held by the thin man, and the two green-skinned thugs who guarded the door took a few steps back without hesitation. In unison, he pointed at the thin man and shouted, "You don't have tuberculosis, do you?" You're not going to hurt people here! If you really want to die in this realm, it doesn't matter if the street stinks, but it really delays your fortune! ”

Coughing continuously, the thin man just waved his hand at the two green-skinned thugs who guarded the door, but he couldn't say a word.......

With a bit of hesitation. The green-skinned thugs who had more than seven or eight eldest sons looked at the pitiful appearance of the thin man, turned his head and shouted towards the half-abandoned courtyard: "Give a place that can block the wind!" ”

Towards the green-skinned thug who turned his head and left after shouting a word, and then thanked the bitter man who gave himself a corner in the dilapidated courtyard, the thin man who carried the old wooden box on his back first put the old wooden box on his back on the corner of the wall that was leaky through the air, and then took off the heavy robe on his body as a cover, and sat down in the corner of the wall, but after a moment he began to snort heavily.

The people who slept in this dilapidated courtyard were all bitter people who worked hard to eat, and they were all so tired that they didn't even have the strength to talk after a day's work. Listening to the thin man who was the first to snore, it was only half a bowl of tea, and the loud or small snoring sound had already been thought of one after another in the horns that could block the wind in the dilapidated courtyard.

Opening his eyes slightly, the thin man who was snoring in the corner of the wall looked carefully at the sleeping bitter man in the courtyard, and slowly groped for the old wooden box placed beside him under the thick cloth robe with one hand, and quietly pulled out a finger-thick wooden strip on the old wooden box.

With the wooden strip being gently pulled out, the original look at the top of the wooden box that was spliced tightly, a palm-sized trapdoor suddenly opened, and the two yellow skins that came out of the trap door were only two palms long, all of them were golden, the beard on the side of the mouth was a palm long, and the tips of the claws occasionally exposed on the two front paws were also sharp and abnormal, and they looked like they were good at tearing and digging.

A pair of eyes looked back and forth at the sleeping miserable people like shooting stars, but the thin man who shrunk in the corner no longer pretended to snore, but just covered his robe under the bridge of his nose, pursed his lips and whistled gently. With the sound of a whistle, the two yellow-skinned men who had just come out of the old wooden box suddenly stood up with their two hind paws, but with their pointed mouths, they took a ball of things that exuded a faint honey aroma and sour smell from the hands of the thin man, and drilled out of the hole in the corner.

Closing his eyes slightly, the thin man reached out and took out a copper piece of jade that was only two fingers wide from his arms, and after counting the hundred and ten numbers silently, he shook his face violently, and struck out two crisp sounds with the copper piece of jade that was two fingers wide.

The night was quieter, and the two movements of the copper piece and jade were suddenly spread far and wide along the street, and even those bitter people who slept in the dilapidated courtyard were shocked by the movement of the copper piece and jade, but under the extreme exhaustion, the bitter people who were disturbed by the drowsiness were only half-asleep and muttered a few words and coughed a few times, but continued to fall asleep.

Still silently counting the numbers, the thin man cowering in the corner of the wall struck one or two crisp noises with copper pieces and jade from time to time, as if he was using the crisp sound to control two yellow skins that came out of the old wooden box. Only after the two golden yellow skins came back from the hole in the corner of the wall again, the thin man who was shrunk in the corner of the wall took the copper piece and jade into his arms, gently took the two yellow skins and stuffed them back into the old wooden box, and then stood up lightly and quietly walked out of the dilapidated courtyard.

Walking out of the silent and dark alley, the thin man with the old wooden box on his back suddenly stopped and whispered to the shadow of a house at the mouth of the alley: "It's nine monkeys, isn't it?" ”

With the sound of the thin man lowering his voice, from the shadow of the house at the mouth of the alley, the nine monkeys had already come out in response, and shouted to the thin man with a suppressed voice: "Uncle Hu, have you done something there?" ”

With a slight nod, Hu Qianli looked back at the dark alley behind him, and then silently calculated for a moment before whispering to the nine monkeys: "It's time to do it!" Immediately inform your senior brother to do it, the wild honey and cocoon pulp dug out of the honeycomb in the field can't withstand the wind, at most there will be no smell in half an hour! ”

He agreed neatly, but the nine monkeys didn't move, just put two fingers to the corners of his mouth, and whistled three times loudly. With the sound of whistles, it was just a blink of an eye, and from the end of the dark alley, three loud whistles sounded.......

Listening to the movement of the whistle kept getting farther and farther, Hu Qianli frowned slightly, but asked the nine monkeys in a low voice, "You have settled down here?" ”

Nodding hurriedly, the nine monkeys quickly responded to Hu Qianli: "Delivering messages at night, running back and forth on the street is too eye-catching, so I simply called on the number of ways to transmit the message." Anyway, Senior Brother Xiang already understood the meaning of this whistle, and when he heard the movement, he did it, and he couldn't make a mistake! (To be continued.) )